American Gangster lyrics - Jay Z

I'm from the 80's, 

Home of the heroine,

Error of the hustlers, uh

The world is my custy

New rich porter

The way I flip quarters

Front on all these other rap artists, but me

Momma was a mink wearer, Papa ran numbers

So it's plain to see, where my whole plan come from

American dream, I'm living the life still

The way I shine is like a zillion dollar light bill

Still I'm grinding, army jacket lining

40 below timbs on, getting my M's on

My best friends gone, I seen bad days

Still find songs that I hear him on

Getting my Mary J. Blige Reminisce on

I hear his voice in my mind, like, nigga live on

So I get on that fly shit I been on

Spin on corners in enzo with rims on

But for info, puffin on Endo-Nesia

Give me amnesia

I ease up, that right, I'm high nigga

I want the sky, 

The world when I'm done

I'm give it to my sons

Let 'em live it up, split it up, switch it up, 

Sixes kit it up, man I did it up, done

The rest of my belongings belong in the hall of fame, a list of hits next to all my names

I came, if the sky should fall

And it all goes tomorrow, and they foreclose on the house and auction off all my cars

Don't cry for me Argentina, I mobbed the beamer

Took trips abroad, got mobbed in Sardina

In Ibiza I had pizza in the club

Ladies know I'm that guy, they wanna piece of my love

Now they wanna ya boy like Mike in his prime

Billie Jean the goddamn boy ain't mine

And the Roc break up, had the people losing hope

Can't lie they had Muhammad Hovi on the ropes

Now I'm back in the go mode, back in the go-go's

Throwing the diamond up, repping the logo

Rose gold rose flow, I'm okay though

What Don't kill me makes stronger than before so

Here we go and I'm not domino

When it all falls down, I'm like Kanye's jaw

I might break but I don't fold, till I hold the sky in my hand

Yeah that's my goal 

And then I bid you Freddy Adu

Prodigal Child, y'all not ready for the future

Then I disappear in the Bermuda Triangle

My name will be viewed such

Here's to the man that refused to give up

I want the sky nigga, Chuuuuuuch